All the headlines from our Texas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 31 2012 // The family of an Arkansas teenager who died after being hit by a tractor-trailer in Texas last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver of the truck and his employer.The lawsuit filed in U.S. District...
Jan 31 2012 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced a $450,058 workers’ compensation dividend to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) construction safety group. The dividend was based largely on the safety...
Jan 30 2012 // FCCI Insurance Group has announced it is expanding its commercial insurance offerings into Maryland and Texas.The company has named several executives to serve in a new home office that will oversee operations in those...
Jan 30 2012 // The federal government has rejected a request by Texas to be excluded from a new law that limits how much health insurance companies can spend on overhead.The law is part of the Affordable Care Act, changes made in federal...
Jan 27 2012 // The H.W. Kaufman Financial Group, parent company of wholesale broker and underwriting manager Burns & Wilcox, has purchased Chesterfield Group Ltd., a London-based insurance broker and underwriting organization with...
Jan 26 2012 // Buckets of rain and powerful winds that likely spawned several tornadoes swept across Texas on Jan. 25, forcing drivers to abandon cars on flooded roads but not dropping enough water to make up for a historic dry spell.The...
Jan 25 2012 // Two well-known Texas independent insurance agencies have merged.Dallas-based McQueary Henry Bowles Troy (MHBT) and Shofner, Lynch & Shulse LLC (SLS) announced that the SLS Lubbock office joined MHBT effective Jan. 1,...
Jan 24 2012 // With weather forecasters issuing severe weather alerts for Texas as a slow moving cold front rolls across the state, many Texans may be reminded of the natural forces in 2011 that destroyed lives and property in all...
Jan 24 2012 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) approved 13 renewals of the Certificates of Authority for companies to self-insure their workers’ compensation claims for a...
Jan 24 2012 // No one calls him Sir Allen Stanford anymore. He is inmate number 35017-183.On Monday, the Texas financier headed to court in Houston to battle charges that he operated a $7 billion Ponzi scheme from Stanford International...
Jan 23 2012 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced a $267,364 workers’ compensation dividend to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) wholesale/retail safety group. The dividend was based largely on the safety...
Jan 23 2012 // Some lawmakers in Texas want Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman to withdraw the state’s request for a waiver to the medical loss ratio (MLR) provision in the federal health insurance reform law. State Rep. Lon...
Jan 23 2012 // That Texas was ranked among the bottom three states in a recently released analysis of residential building codes in the 18 hurricane-prone coastal states does not sit well with the state’s insurance regulators.In...
Jan 23 2012 // Ascension, Falcone WilliamsAscension Insurance is expanding in North Carolina with its third agency acquisition in the state in the past three years. Ascension’s most recent acquisition is Falcone Williams Insurance,...
Jan 23 2012 // Swantner & Gordon Insurance Agency has added Thomas Peel in the marketing department of the firm’s Houston office.As a marketing representative, Peel will be responsible for analyzing and placing risk with...
Jan 23 2012 // PUREPrivilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (PURE), which offers customized property and casualty insurance coverage to owners of well-built, high-value homes, is expanding into Louisiana. Current agency partners in...
Jan 23 2012 // Forecasters say two tornados hit the Houston area during early January thunderstorms that flooded roads and knocked out power. The National Weather Service said a tornado with 95 mph winds touched down on Jan. 9 in Mission...
Jan 20 2012 // A lawsuit in which Texas accused Johnson & Johnson of plundering the state Medicaid program by overstating the safety of an expensive anti-psychotic drug and improperly influencing officials and doctors to push the...
Jan 20 2012 // Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA), headquartered in Austin, Texas, reported 19.5 percent growth in written property/casualty premiums in the third quarter of 2011, compared with the same period in 2010.CAA, whose 47...
Jan 20 2012 // That Texas ranked among the bottom three states in a recently released analysis of residential building codes in the 18 hurricane-prone coastal states does not sit well with the state’s insurance regulators.In the...